skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems extremely carbon intensive and would starve eastern Europe of the medical staff it probably needs. Also why would they charge an order of magnitude less when a 3% discount would be enough to attract patients? And how could a brain surgeon do his thing on a boat? This just seems comically bad.
Why is the current finance minister of Israel engaging in "almost certainly made up anti-Israel propaganda"?

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-seeks-to-calm-waters-wi...

The article talks about his a speech he made in Paris in March of 2023 in which he calls Palestinians a made-up people. The podium he is speaking from features a map of Israel that includes Jordanian and Syrian territory. Israel is literally invading and annexing Syrian territory (which the media is playing down as 'buffer zones'
Kaiser is the one thing I miss the most having left the Bay Area. It has sort of moved in here, but it took over an existing group and afaik, it's not really integrated like it was down there; there's no Kaiser hospitals here, so hospital care is going to be a mess, and I'm not sure if they have pharmacies either.

But, a lot of people don't like Kaiser. You have to be ok with getting good enough care, and not really be trying to seek 'the best' care. Integration is so nice though. I'm sure Kaiser never puts you in the situation where the Dr says I'm not sure which drug will be covered, let's try A, the pharmacist says A isn't covered, ask your Dr to write a script for B, and your Dr doesn't answer the phone so you have to decide to either pay $250 for A or wait over the weekend to start your kid's treatment.
Trump got lucky a bit with the immigration issue. There are 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the US. The barriers to removal that existed 15 years ago are mostly gone. Everyone is so connected now, finding illegals is straightforward data mining. The government data shows there is really no explanation why they aren't being removed. Even Obama deported huge numbers of illegals. It also didn't help that in exit polls Harris received less than 40% of the vote of married men and less than 40% of the vote of people identifying as Christian. I would say people voted for deportations and someone more old fashioned.
I’m really not a fan of smoking cigarettes at all (although cigars are nice every once in a while), but I do wonder if a study has ever incorporated the social aspects of smoking. Social life does have an effect on life expectancy, although probably not enough to make up for the loss of life caused by smoking.

The only real appeal of smoking to me was the fact that one has an instant social situation with other smokers. Nowadays, non-smoking strangers with time to kill end up staring at their phones. Although I wonder if smokers also do the same thing…
The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) reveals that the Volkswagen Group systematically collects movement data from hundreds of thousands of vehicles from the brands VW, Audi, Skoda, and Seat and stores it over long periods. The data, including information about vehicle owners, was also accessible on the internet without protection.

Volkswagen gains insights into the everyday ‒ and particularly the non-everyday ‒ private lives of hundreds of thousands of vehicle owners through this movement data.

Affected are not only private individuals but also fleet managers, board members, and supervisory board members of DAX companies, as well as various police authorities in Europe. For example, movement data from 35 electric patrol cars of the Hamburg police were collected and stored on the VW platform for third-party access.

Sensitive data regarding intelligence and military activities were also collected: among other things, records were found from the parking garage of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and from the military airfield of the United States Air Force in Ramstein.

The information collected by VW subsidiary Cariad includes precise details about the location and time of the ignition shut-off. The movement data is linked to other personal data, allowing for conclusions about suppliers, service providers, employees, or cover organizations of security authorities.

"The problem is that this data is collected at all and stored over such a long period. That it was also poorly protected just adds insult to injury," said Linus Neumann, spokesperson for the Chaos Computer Club.

A detailed report was published today in SPIEGEL.

[1] https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2024/wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-s...
From the technical perspective, I see Amazon as a platform first design. They're not shy about it, they embraced it ("we so totally overengineered our infra we now can rent it!"). It's so zombocomey that you can use it to zombocomify your own shit.

We should still call it "overengineering" and not "insight". It was a risk and a compromise.
Another option would be to tax for the negative externality of waste disposal
Red meat does make you fart more though. I cant imagine thats healthy for people around you.
Letting Language Models Write My Website
Vaping is way less harmful than smoking.

See e.g. the study [0] conducted by Public Health England that concludes vaping is at least 95% (!) less harmful than smoking.

See also this video [1] that shows graphically the different impact it has on the lungs.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/e-cigarettes-around-95-le...

[1] https://youtu.be/0Pwj6BuS8Ds
I personally care. And misusing a browser engine for this is just terrible.

It could have been a native UI application, there are many cross platform native UI frameworks out there, just saying
Please refer to my recent AI Code review performance test include DeepSeek V3:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42547196
Life expectancy is still lower in the US than in western Europe.
People don't realize they don't have to stick to a single shell for both scripting and terminal use.

I use zsh with plugins which pretty much makes it act like fish's convenience but one can use fish as their shell scripting while keeping the "bash" compatibility by keep using zsh or bash under terminal.
> OpenAI has a short-ish window of opportunity to figure out how to build a moat.

and they are probably going to go with regulatory moat over technical moat.
Gemini cites web references, NotebookLM cites references in your own material, and the Gemini APIs have features around citations and grounding in web search content. I'm not familiar with OpenAI or Anthropic's APIs but I imagine they do similar, although I don't think ChatGPT cites content.

All these are doing however is fact-checking and linking out to those fact-checking sources. They aren't extracting text verbatim from a database. You could probably get close with RAG techniques, but you still can't guarantee it in the same way that if you ask an LLM to exactly repeat your question back to you, you can't guarantee that it will verbatim.

Verbatim reproduction would be possible with some form of tool use, where rather than returning, say, a bible verse, the LLM returns some structure asking the orchestrator to run a tool that inserts a bible verse from a database.
Eg. 1 in 10 open source projects abandon bazel within 2 years. https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/bazelcon-2024-recap
AVIF images being automatically disabled by default in Lockdown Mode is painful. That and various automatic family sharing things (such as shared photos or children app install requests) no longer working has made Lockdown a deal breaker in some cases where the user doesn’t appreciate the threat.
I don't think Scrooge is a role model for most people. Most people want enough income to afford a house and raise a family. Scrooge is a role model for the 1% wealthiest people alive because they seem to want more money and more power and are never satisfied with what they have.
If they're cool with whistleblowing they're cool with journalism.

They were referring to stuff like sabatoge, I'm sure
This seems the actual future of color 3D printing. Filament manufacturers will develop increasingly better translucent filaments and 3D printer manufacturers will seamlessly integrate the method on the printers.

I have a Bambu P1S with the multi filament upgrade, and while great for several motives (keeping 4 spools at hand dried and ready), I never use it for actual multi material printing due to it’s slowness and wasteness.
> Their "moat" is in public minds here.

no, the amazon moat is scale, and efficiency, which leads to network effect. The chinese competitors are reaching similar scales, so the moat isn't insurmountable - just not for the average mom and dad business.
In Belgium you already pay a specific 'disposal' fee when you purchase an appliance. This is on top of the regular sales tax of tyically 21%.
Just to emphasize this point: Walmart was to the IT revolution what Amazon is to the Internet revolution. They were among the first in the sector to move beyond paper and industrialize IT for operations, which allowed them to scale way faster and way more efficiently than their competition. Walmart's most powerful executives were IT executives, and many of them went on to have very decorated careers, e.g., Kevin Turner was the CIO immediately prior to becoming COO at Microsoft.

Walmart is not an Internet company. It is definitely a tech company. It's just that its tech is no longer super cool.
Unlikely, this seems to be a systematic issue around landing gear since a similiar incident by the same airline from the catastrophic incident happened within 24 hours
IBM 5150 Technical Reference Manual from 1984. The 1981 version is also floating around. The commented BIOS starts on page 123.

https://archive.org/details/IBMPCIBM5150TechnicalReference63...
Hulu's Seinfeld Apartment and Jerry's Macs
It's an evolution of said papers and AFAIU improves the attack to a level that makes it executable.
There's still one thing missing here: the browser. I do not agree with Gruber's analogy that the LLM is the browser. The interface to the LLM is the browser. We have seen some attempts at creating good browsers for LLM but we do not have NetScape, IE/Edge, Chrome, FF, Brave yet. Once we do, you would very easily be jumping between these models, and even letting the browser pick a model for you based on the type of question.

Also companies will be (and are) bundling these subscriptions for you, like Raycast AI, where you pay one monthly sum and get access to «all major models».
Glass bottle fees in Belgium are 0.1€. You pay it at purchase and get it back when you return the bottle.
the useless massacre they indulge in is why I will never visit them

don't want my money to support that
Oh, I thought it was referring to the free blender implementation. Cool nonetheless
You should avoid NY at all costs
It can't possibly be linear like that, right?

Also, I swear the mechanism behind smoking causing cancer is that cells have a different division mode for rapid healing and it's more prone to copying errors than normal cell division. Some of these copying errors break the replication inhibition mechanism, and then you have the accepted thing where some errors are caught by the immune system and eventually you get unlucky and some aren't. This pattern applies to every cancer that I know of (where healing in the case of smoking is tiny burns healing over and over and over again).
Making something illegal isn't gonna work if there's clearly value in doing it, and isn't actually harmful. Regulatory unfairness is easily discerned.

Look at how competitive chinese EVs are, and no amount of tarriffs are gonna stop them from dominating the market - even if americans prevent their own market from being dominated, all of their allies will not be able to stop their own.
that doesn't answer OP question/point at all

also, legislation in EU is harmonized, i.e. all important legal bits between the different countries are the same (implementation might differ slightly)
You think those are successful?
The best story I have about Rod Serling is that my dad (who went to Cornell) knew him during his time as a teacher at Ithaca College, and ended up briefly dating his daughter! A very amiable person, who you'd never guess had such a chambered mind, at least from all the stories I hear.

Try looking ahead: https://youtu.be/tDtT7CEQcMs.
https://unlace.app/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Fianwcrosby%2Fs...
Thanks.

> ...we're currently in the Stone Age of iPhone forensics on the defensive side.

Since I've seen your comments show a pretty good understanding of AOSP/Android, what's your take on its posture against CSVs? Especially given that Google has been pursuing both legal [0] & technical defenses (at every level of the software stack) against them quite actively.

[0] Ex: https://www.centerforcybersecuritypolicy.org/hacking-policy-...
> if today you told me you had a website that was 100% technologically identical to Amazon, but you were willing to make slightly less money, you'd still have no products

It is widely understood that you really can't compete with "as good as". People won't leave Google, Facebook, etc. if you can only provide a service as good as, because the effort required to move would not be worth it.

> if you show me a product that works just as well as ChatGPT but costs less--or which costs the same but works a bit better--I would use it

This is why I believe LLMs will become a commodity product. The friction to leave one service is nowhere near as as great as leaving a social network. LLMs in their current state are very much interchangeable. OpenAI will need a technological breakthrough in reliability and/or cost to get people to realize that leaving OpenAI makes no sense.
They started the development in 2020, so it may still be a blockchain.
> They are still behind in semiconductors, maybe 10 or 20 years

i dont believe they're as behind as many analysis deems. In fact, making it illegal to export western chips to china only serves to cause the mother of all inventions, necessity, to pressure harder and make it work.
Honestly for most people their dislike of people smoking/vaping in shared areas is first about the smell, and only second about the health risk.
Oh I realise how small it is, which is why it makes better sense to join the EU.
The better you can describe the interdependencies between the components, the more chances the selective approaches have.

However, often if you knew about a given dependency, you might have avoided bugs in the first place!

A simple scenario to illustrate what I have in mind: a system with two plugins, A and B. They provide completely independent functionality, and are otherwise entirely unrelated.

Plugin A adds a new function which allocates a large amount of memory. All tests for A pass. All tests for B pass. The tests for B when A is loaded fail.

Turns out A has done two things:

1) the new memory allocation together with the existing memory allocations in B causes an OOM when both are used.

2) the new function addition offset the function table in the main program, and the plugin B was relying on a haedcoded function index, which didn’t change, by sheer chance, for years.

Those are the the tales based on the real world experience, which made me abandon the idea for the project I am working on (VPP) - the trade offs didn’t seem to be worth it. For some other scenario they may be different though, so thanks for looking into this issue!
All people do what they can 'get away with' which a pejorative expression for saying that people attempt to do what they've decided to do. I would have thought that 'get away with' implies working within a current legal framework. But legality is just a formal description of that which has been decided in the past. It is not a permanent fixture.
I guess that explains all of the 'our product is an existential threat' chuunibyou bullshit. Trying to get a regulatory moat instead.
Well, to have a full understanding you should also factor in the life loss by second hand smokers who involuntarily breath smoke
Jolt Cola aims to make a comeback – this time with even more caffeine
That’s an interesting comment.

I have a sidebar question for you: what phone do you use if you are comfortable sharing.

I’m wondering if you are bias towards the walled garden of apple with its perceived security or android or some other.
Second Jeju Air plane experiences landing gear malfunction
It is better to leave this up to the «LLM browser», than the LLM. Both because of privacy and portability.
> China's biggest challenge ATM is that they do not yet economically produce the GPUs and RAM needed to train and use big models. They are still behind in semiconductors, maybe 10 or 20 years (they can make fast chips, they can make cheap chips, they can't yet make fast cheap chips).

You don't need the most efficient chips to train LLMs. those much slower chips (e.g. those made by Huawei) will probably take longer for training and they waste more electricity and space. but so what?
Canada not in Europe :-)
> FDR is the reason

Well, and also every administration and Congress after him for not changing it back.
I imagine there is a large call-centre style barn somewhere for every social media product and the people in it are paid to dis detractors and otherwise act as fan-boys. The article is pointing out a problem with blue sky that we should attend to. Saying "bluesky is great" might be true but ignores the content of the article. (I am now going to watch my whole 24 points on hn disappear and change my name again)
>What sources or resources are reliable on this?

imo, none. Unfortunately, the landscape is changing too fast. May be things will stabilize, but for now I find experimentation a time-consuming but essential part of maintaining any ML stack.

But it's okay not to experiment with every new tool (it can be overwhelming to do this). The key is in understanding one's own stack and filtering out anything that doesn't fit into it.
It's possible to accept the Gospel as divine revelations while denying the divinity of Jesus Christ: there's a large sect called Unitarians that do precisely that. https://www.biblicalunitarian.com/100-scriptural-arguments-f... are some of the verses they based their arguments on. Similarly in early Christianity there were many Arian Christians, who did not believe in the Trinity, but they were eventually violently suppressed by the Roman Emperor on penalty of death.
I mean, if they can get Naomi Wu to bend at the knee, none of their citizens are safe
An "implant" is like a rootkit; it's all the things you do with a compromise once your exploit chain pays off, and threat actors generally have standardized implant stacks.

"SOTA" is just an abbreviation for "state of the art".
I was referring to the life lost by the individual smoker, not life lost at large.
then why not look it up?

sending someone abroad to compile information on other people just seems off, even if some of that is public.

These are supposed to be students.
Apples and ladybugs are both red but (I imagine) they taste quite differently. Which one you should use probably depends on whether you’re baking a pie or dealing with pests in your garden.

Declaring them equal based on a single metric like color would be as silly as suggesting subscriptions and purchases are the same because their costs over an arbitrary period of time are roughly similar.
Seriously everyone critiquing 40 year old projects like they just had PVs laying around in the 70s.
It was Brian Kernighan and P. J. Plauger (The Elements of Programming Style (1974, 2nd edition 1978), chapter 2, page 10):

> Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
Hi, I'm a noob in this plane, but I'm learning slowly. Could you please tell me how this is different from running something like [Msty](https://msty.app/)?

That also supports running local models that you already installed using ollama and things like, adding pdf and preserving chat history. So what am I looking at here with ooba?

Thanks!
I don't use iOS often but I find lockdown mode to interfere very little with apps when I've tried it. Seems like a "don't get hacked" toggle that companies and people doing any kind or public researchs should just turn on for their phones.

However, I don't have access to Safari on a dev machine and until Apple fixes that, I'm not testing websites on iOS. Sorry not sorry, but even Microsoft Edge is cross platform these days, if Apple wants independent websites to support their browser (especially their own restricted browser profiles) they need to stop making it exclusive to their hardware.

Seems like a good idea to test against if you're already doing Safari testing but I'm not sure if automated tooling supports the toggle.
I am an anesthesiologist. This is false. We bill 1 unit every 15 minutes, and then we receive startup units on top. A gall bladder removal is 7 units and often takes an hour. So we would receive 11 units for that hour. If it takes 2 hours we would get 15 units. If it takes 3 hours we would get 19 units.

There is no cap for billing, but realize when an operation goes long it not only means we make less per hour, but there is also usually a good reason for that. Even if there isn’t a good reason, it’s not like we have control over how fast a surgeon operates.
Kids really shouldn't touch caffeine. We should have protections in place as with alcohol.

As for sugar... maybe a blanket prohibition.
Show HN: The New Science – 600+ books claiming to be "the new science of " XYZ
Amazon spent those billions on warehouses, server, its own delivery network, etc.

Anyone can sell online. But not just anyone has those advantages like same day abs next day shipping
Insurance companies sold such plans for decades; the price goes up as you get older (==riskier from the pov of the insurer). Just like life insurance.

At some point the consumer makes a decision that the cost of insurance doesn’t justify the benefit.
Nobody has released an alternative browser engine yet, because of the way the app store works (you'd need specific apps you can only install in the EU next to the worldwide version for instance). I'm sure it'll happen eventually, but it doesn't seem to be a priority for browser makers just yet.
> In my very religious upbringing I wasn't allowed to read fairy tales. The danger being not able to classify which stories truly happened and which ones didn't.

Thanks for sharing. You might be interested: JRR Tolkien, 'fairy tale' author, was also a/the leading scholar of Old English (Anglo-Saxon), related languages, and the culture and myth around them - including 'fairy tales'; and he was a devout Catholic.

How could he write (and study) such ungodly material? He wrestles with the question multiple times, but if you are interested, I strongly recommend On Fairy-stories, an essay based on a lecture. It covers far more ground than this question, but it's worth reading anyway. I'll append a spoiler below.

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There's more to it than this, but it's a wonderful vision:

"The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy-stories. They contain many marvels - peculiarly artistic,[1] beautiful, and moving: 'mythical' in their perfect, self-contained significance; and among the marvels is the greatest and most complete conceivable eucatastrophe. But this story has entered History and the primary world .... The Birth of Christ is the eucatastrophe of Man's history. The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation. This story begins and ends in joy. It has pre-eminently the 'inner consistency of reality'. There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true, and none which so many sceptical men have accepted as true on its own merits. For the Art of it has the supremely convincing tone of Primary Art, that is, of Creation. ..."

[1] "The Art is here in the story itself rather than in the telling; for the Author of the story was not the evangelists."